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Chosen by our premium patron Jibbly, it's time to return to the DC Animated Universe with Justice League! The 2001 toon made the Superfriends cool for the first time ever, and set ratings records for Cartoon Network. How did Bruce Timm's team grow to handle a bigger series and expanded the DC stories they had already told? We talk about that and the second half of the season one classic, Injustice For All! Listen now or else Lex Luthor has won already!

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Frank Grimes

When they first released JL on DVD, I was actually surprised they were 2 parters...if I remember correctly, CN would air them seamlessly as hour long eps, without the TBC.

ShyRanger

Green Lantern being white in the movie is not just a problem with the movie side of things. Even at DC Comics I've seen plenty of interviews from around 10 years ago saying "Hal Jordan is the most iconic Green Lantern" without much reason why. That statement still doesn't make sense to me. For one even now GL is a more niche hero nowhere near the level of the big three. Second, one of the lantern's big things is passing on powers to worthy successors, so they're whole thing is having new versions that could be anyone. And finally, you can't even say he's the most iconic because of nostalgia, because comic books are so old that there's plenty of nostalgia for plenty versions of any characters.

YourRude

BoomTubes they use BoomTubes to teleport

Brian Silvers

Justice League Unlimited is S caliber TV for me. I hope you can the whole Cadmus arc sometime in the future.

Joe Hodgson

I never got into this series after being a big fan of BTAS and Batman Beyond as well. I disliked how Timm's art style seemed to get weirder and weirder the further from the original BTAS we got. Shallow, yes, but it was a turn-off come this series plus I never had much interest in the wider DC Universe. It was interesting to hear Timm complain about the WB censors in comparison to Cartoon Network. They seemed to get away with whatever they wanted on The New Batman Adventures, especially compared with the Fox BTAS. Timm even praised the censors of WB in comparison with Fox and, almost as if to make a point, the premier of The New Batman Adventures acknowledged that Joker is a murderer and he gets to blast Batman over the back of the head with a full bottle of champagne, which shatters. My guess is maybe their attitude changed with Batman Beyond. I could see the network wanting an adolescent Batman behave in a less violent manner and also not be put in the same amount of peril as an adult hero. They also famously had issues with censorship on the film. Though one correction, Joker's final appearance in that show was actually "Beware the Creeper" as it was, going by production order, after "Mad Love" which aired as the series finale. In that one, Joker never has a real chance to kill Batman, though he does prefer to turn tail than take him on in traditional Joker fashion.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

The talk about how Superman is a little inconsistent in the first season, as well as some in-universe weirdness you just have to ignore with powers but it ultimately not mattering that much for how good these shows are (and the mention of how Carl Lumbly appeared on Supergirl as J'onnz's dad) made me wanna pop in to say a little bit about the Arrowverse. I've been a big fan of it since early into the Flash and am still a regular viewer of most of it, especially Supergirl, and I think a lot of why I like the shows and their interconnected nature is why I like the DCAU as well. There may be problems and narrative inconsistencies but ultimately, both universes seem to fundamentally understand their characters (with some dips here and there) and bring the vibrant fun of the comics to life on the big screen. Obviously there's a lot MORE of the Arrowverse at this point, given that the shows are hour long and there's more than the 5-ish of the DCAU, so I get why people may not want to get into them, but with the DCAU gone and WB/DC seemingly uninterested in doing more with it, I'm glad to have another good connected universe of DC heroes on TV.

Mr. President

I would love it if you did a weekly DCAU podcast